Why last week's fire sale was a mistake...

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Originally Posted by CptGreedle

There is a bigger problem here than you realize...
Right now the only major manufacturer of HD-DVD players is... Toshiba.
Blu-ray has many many many manufacturers, and that keeps a healthy competition and builds a strong foundation for the format.
Now that Toshiba has lowered the price of the HD-DVD player to $100, no one in their right mind would join them to build HD-DVD players in the future.

Not sure I agree with that theory - Toshiba is the only major HD DVD producer but we and they know that and it isn't going to change overnight. What the firesale does do though is entrench the brand. The latest figures - 100,000 standalones and 210,000 xbox addons in the last month - will account for 1 million+ disks before Xmas assuming 3 or 4 disk attach rates. That's alot and will encourage Blu only producers to add HD DVD to their devices to ensure sales. And I think in a dual format world we'll lose; studios will be drawn to the (alleged) cheaper production of HD DUD.